title: Forty years of neuroglycopenia: neuropsychiatry for the internist.
abstract: The case of a 65-year-old patient with an insulin-secreting pancreatic tumour and a 40-year history of neuropsychiatric disease is reported. The physiopathology and clinical features of acute, subacute, and chronic neuroglycopenia in patients with endogenous insulin hypersecretion are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Clinical Nutrition, Antwerp University Hospital, Belgium.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Wouters
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Van Gaal
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: De Leeuw
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007003:Hypoglycemia / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology*; D007340:Insulinoma / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology*; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology*; D013997:Time Factors